shikamaru317 said:
He asked them to use the Ecco name on the Kickstarter and they refused, so he did it as a new IP and it failed because people didn't have the name to associate with the project. The Kickstater would have succeeded if it had the Ecco name, Ecco and Toejam & Earl were both about equally popular back in the day and the Toejam & Earl Kickstarter succeeded with about the same budget that Ed was looking for The Little Blue. He sued Sega because it was the last avenue available to him, he exhausted every other option to try and give fans a new Ecco game. If he had sued them years ago, then he could be called petty, but he didn't. He pitched like 6 different Ecco ideas to Sega and they refused them all, he asked them to let him use the Ecco name to Kickstart a new game and they still refused despite their being no financial risk to them. I love Sega, but they are the ones being petty about this, not Ed. They're just sitting on the IP like so many others, while it wastes away. |
Shika, you keep doing this. I just said that. SEGA, just like many Japanese developers, sit on multiple IP. They can do that because its their's no matter how much it sucks for us, but it doesn't mean that somebody else becomes entitled to it. If you had a PS4 you never used, or a car you dont drive it doesnt mean your neighbor is entitled to take it from your home does it?
